"Mrs.Marston, pray do not alter your plans.
Carr!" in a much sterner tone, "I must beg that you will not think of leaving us to-day.

Your friend Colonel Middleton is staying on, and we cannot allow you to desert us so suddenly." It was more like a command than an invitation; but Carr, usually so quick to take a slight, did not seem to notice it, and merely said that he should be happy to go or stay, whichever was most in accordance with the wishes of others, and took up the newspaper.

He and Charles did not seem to get on well.

I could see that Charles had not seemed to take to him from the very first; and Carr certainly did not appear at ease in the house.

Perhaps Charles felt that he had rather failed in courtesy to him, for during the remainder of the morning he hardly let him out of his sight.